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		<title>Voldemort and Nominalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Looking for God in Harry Potter, John Granger, following the Harry Potter books, describes Voldemort, the arch villain, as a shallow materialist. Voldemort makes for himself so called ‘Horcruxes,’ material objects in which he pours fragments of his split soul in an attempt to ‘live forever’ and ‘flee death.’ (To read more about what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=40&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/voldemort-an-nominalism/</link>
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		<title>Voldemort&#8217;s rebirth and the &#8220;Black Mass&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Goblet of Fire, Voldemort goes trough a kind of &#8220;rebirth&#8221; in what &#8212; according to John Granger, both at his blog and in Looking for God in Harry Potter &#8212; resembles a &#8220;Black Mass.&#8221; For those who do not know what a &#8220;Black Mass&#8221; is, it is a turning upside down of the elements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=38&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/voldemorts-rebirth-and-the-black-mass/</link>
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		<title>Dumbledore as gay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit that J.K. Rowling&#8217;s revelation that Dumbledore is/was gay is a bad thing. Not necessarily the fact that he&#8217;s gay, but the fact that these kind of revelations cheapens the novels. Alastair over at the alastair.adversaria blog has some interesting thought on this. I recommend a read. Here is some excerpts:
I can&#8217;t say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=37&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/dumbledore-as-gay/</link>
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		<title>Stan Shunpike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Harry is chased by the Death Eaters after leaving Privit Drive in Deathly Hallows, he discoveres that Stan Shunpike is one of the people following him. They conclude that he is imperiused, but is there anywhere in the story where this is in fact &#8220;proven&#8221;? Do we know that he isn&#8217;t a Death Eater?
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		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/stan-shunpike/</link>
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		<title>Harry Potter &#8212; Nature Boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came over this movie at YouTube. It connects harry Potter with my all time favorite song, &#8220;Nature Boy.&#8221;

Here is the lyrics:
There was a boy,
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he
And then one day
A magic day he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=34&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/harry-potter-nature-boy/</link>
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		<title>Alan Jacobs on Deathly Hallows (and more)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via John Granger
Alan Jacobs have written a review/article about Deathly Hallows; The Youngest Brother&#8217;s Tale, where he writes some pretty insightful thing about the Harry Potter series. But I feel that he is wrong on at least two important accounts. Let me quote:
The key theme of the whole series is the opposition of death and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=33&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/alan-jacobs-on-deathly-hallows-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Michael O&#8217;Brien is at it again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Sword of Gryffindor
Michael O&#8217;Brien still rants on. I will not comment much, but after reading the essay, I started to think about why O&#8217;Brien would write this garbage (let&#8217;s use proper words.) And the only alternatives I see is these; (i) He has not read the books at all, which makes him dishonest; (ii) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=32&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/michael-obrien-is-at-it-again/</link>
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		<title>Chiastic structure in Harry Potter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acording to some, for example Merlin over at Muggle Matters and Pastor Joe Thacker, there is a certain Chiastic structure in the Harry Potter books, which uses the structure; abcdcba. John Granger explains this like this:
In brief, it is the idea that the novels are something of a circle or loop in which books 1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=29&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/chiastic-structure-in-harry-potter/</link>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Hell and Harry Potter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you haven&#8217;t read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This is based on some comments I made in the combox for this post over at Sword of Gryffindor.
We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=28&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/some-thoughts-on-hell-and-harry-potter/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting parts of Deathly Hallows, was Harry&#8217;s and Tom&#8217;s &#8220;chat&#8221; before their final duel. Harry says that he knows magic, and has a weapon, that Tom doesn&#8217;t. Tom&#8217;s emotional retort clearly shows his lack of wisdom:
&#8216;You think you know more magic than I do?&#8217; he said. &#8216;Than I, than Lord Voldemort, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virtueofpotter.wordpress.com&blog=821049&post=27&subd=virtueofpotter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://virtueofpotter.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/where-your-treasure-is-there-will-your-heart-be-also/</link>
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